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Updated bind-dyndb-ldap packages that fix several bugs and add severalenhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The dynamic LDAP back end is a plug-in for BIND that provides back-endcapabilities to LDAP databases. It features support for dynamic updates andinternal caching that help to reduce the load on LDAP servers.

The bind-dyndb-ldap packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.1.0b2,which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users aredirected to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 Technical Notes for information onthe most significant of these changes:

733371 - DNS zones are not loaded when idnsAllowQuery/idnsAllowTransfer is filled751776 - Skip invalid record in a zone instead of refusing to load entire zone754433 - [RFE] support bind forward zones, aka DNS conditional forwarding766233 - RFE: Support zone transfers in bind-dyndb-ldap767489 - Periodically reconnect to LDAP when the first connection fails767492 - The plugin doesn't delete zone when it is deleted in LDAP and zone_refresh is set767494 - Automatically update corresponding PTR record when A/AAAA record is updated795406 - Hold bind and plugin global settings in LDAP805871 - Incorrect SOA serial number set for forward zone during ipa-server installation.